ppmquant

 

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 ppmquant(1)                                           ppmquant(1)
 
 
 
NAME
        ppmquant  -  quantize the colors in a portable pixmap down
        to a specified number
 
SYNOPSIS
        ppmquant [-floyd|-fs] ncolors [ppmfile]
        ppmquant [-floyd|-fs] -map mapfile [ppmfile]
 
DESCRIPTION
        Reads a portable pixmap as input.  Chooses ncolors  colors
        to  best  represent the image, maps the existing colors to
        the new ones, and writes a portable pixmap as output.
 
        The quantization method is Heckbert's "median cut".
 
        Alternately, you can skip the color-choosing step by spec­
        ifying  your  own  set  of colors with the -map flag.  The
        mapfile is just a ppm file; it can be any shape, all  that
        matters  is  the  colors in it.  For instance, to quantize
        down to the 8-color IBM TTL color set, you might use:
            P3
            8 1
            255
              0   0   0
            255   0   0
              0 255   0
              0   0 255
            255 255   0
            255   0 255
              0 255 255
            255 255 255
        If you want to quantize one pixmap to use  the  colors  in
        another  one, just use the second one as the mapfile.  You
        don't have to reduce it down to only  one  pixel  of  each
        color, just use it as is.
 
        The -floyd/-fs flag enables a Floyd-Steinberg error diffu­
        sion step.  Floyd-Steinberg gives vastly better results on
        images  where  the  unmodified quantization has banding or
        other artifacts, especially when going to a  small  number
        of  colors  such  as  the above IBM set.  However, it does
        take substantially more CPU time, so the default is off.
 
        All flags can be abbreviated to their shortest unique pre­
        fix.
 
 REFERENCES
        "Color  Image  Quantization  for  Frame Buffer Display" by
        Paul Heckbert, SIGGRAPH '82 Proceedings, page 297.
 
SEE ALSO
        ppmquantall(1), pnmdepth(1), ppmdither(1), ppm(5)
 
AUTHOR
        Copyright (C) 1989, 1991 by Jef Poskanzer.
 
 
 
                          12 January 1991              ppmquant(1)

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